USA Brands

It has become a known fact that Mexico will stop buying anything that was produced by any brand from the USA. And I understand, we must support our national produce, help small businesses and that kind of stuff. Go national, yay. However, I don't think this is being thoroughly thought.

Here's the thing: I go to Starbucks, I go to Carl's Jr, and KrispyKreme, and I have Apple devices. One of my family's car is a Ford. And, as I'm sure you know, they are US brands. Brands who belong to the same country that's also home to Disney, CocaCola, Nike and Adidas. The same country that owns Pedigree/Whiskas, Windows, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Gerber, Walmart...So what?

 I honestly do not care what brand myfood or coffee or hot chocolate is (only materialistic people would care about that, c'mon, it's coffee). The only factor that should matter is that it's good, not that it comes in a red cup (or any other colour).What I do care about is that my computer works well, and that I can easily communicate with friends and family. I do care about my food being healthy, and good, and it being there. I do care about my clothes' lifespan, and the quality of my dog's food. 

And most of our stock is USA-branded, because that's how life is. I see a lot of people who say they will go all-mexican. But, will they? Are they willing to give up their phones, and computers, and tvs? Are they willing to delete their netflix and facebook accounts? Because, you know, they are not mexican, and they just help the US economy. I see a lot of people saying they will go all-mexican, and stop buying US-branded stuff, but I do not see them creating a non-US alternative. I see a lot of people complaining, and there's about nobody actually doing something about it.

So, I'm thinking, the day our market is finally 100% national, with quality products that people would actually buy, that's the day the world will change. Not right now, with people posting in Facebook that they will stop buying to the US from their iPhone 7 while they sip on their Starbucks coffee.

Words

You know what i love about languages?

Words.

They change their meaning if a single letter is changed. They change their written form from language to language, and there even is a difference between their written and spoken forms.
Words allow us to communicate.

Words mean the very same thing in every language, and yet, they change a lot.

Grammar structure, word order, pronunciation, writing...

So many borders in communication, just because they were born and developed in different areas of the world, or just because certain country invaded other at a certain period for a determined amount of time, and new words were adopted and received a new meaning, or new words were born.

The words we use here are not the same they use in spain or argentina...

Even from city to city, they change.

Accent and pronunciation change a word's meaning or sense of use. Jokes and puns are able to exist just because of the meaning you give to words. And if you dig in just a little bit in a language's roots, you are able to understand why some words are like they are.

Just look at yourself, staring at different combinations of 26 symbols to get an idea. We even have a way to communicate with those who can't speak, see or hear.


Words allow us to communicate and transmit ideas. Words are able to shape feelings, they can hurt or comfort.


It is a human characteristic. No other living being is able to do it, and I think that's just wonderful.

Cursing

     Okay, so I know I haven't posted in a while, but here's a thought I just came upon:

Why do people feel such a need to curse?  Sure, it'd be hard not to have those words in our vocabulary, however, I just feel using them constantly speaks poorly of a person. What it says about this person is that (s)he is unable to find another word to describe a situation, and needs to use this part of their vocabulary. It means this person has trouble finding a proper word to express an idea, and therefore refers to it using an inadequate alternative to the term.

Things Book Nerds Do

     We book nerds are weird. We do things that 'normal people' just... don't. Things that are nonsense to- external people. Like, who would spend their afternoon reading and realise (and by this I actually mean remember... maybe) that they have math homework? Book nerds, of course. But, just so people know, we are not lonely, nor like to be isolated (that's topic for another post, come back later); we just want to read. And no, we're not pissed off, but if you don't let this reading thing continue, we will be.  So, here are the things we book nerds do, not all of them were written by me, just check them off at the link located at the end of this post. (Quotes are anonymous: I don't know them, for the author of the other post said they're anonymous, and that way they will stay).

Here they are:

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THINGS BOOK NERDS DO

• “I can’t remember if the book is in my car, if I donated it, or if I lent it out and never got it back” – as shared in an email to a friend. This happens just too much.

• Keeping an entire library’s worth of books in your car. Just in case. Or because they don’t fit in your house anymore. I have no car, but I do have one in my school locker. My locker is a library (kind of).

• You create a stack of books to read next and promptly pick up another book entirely to start. To-read lists just aren’t useful. They only serve to impress people.

• You hold off on re-reading the end of a beloved favorite (again) because you don’t want it to end (again).Aye, so true it hurts.

• Wait! Wash those hands before you pick up that book! And no! It’s NOT ‘just a book’! And I won’t calm down!

• You pet book covers before you read them. Coversss…

• Policing random people in bookstores because they’re breaking the damn spines. Like, it’s not even theirs (yet) and they’re already HARMING THEM?

• Constantly rearranging your bookshelves in different ways because you haven’t found the “perfect” system yet. By author? By genre then author? By color? By most loved? Weekly problems we all have.

• You keep a color-coded spreadsheet to track your reading because none of the zillions of existing book-tracking software options is detailed enough for you and you *need* to make graphs at the end of the year. Need. Plus, it does look pretty (and it’s more impressive to people than online ones).

• You ruin everyone’s movie watching experience by pointing out all the differences between the original book/source material and the film. (Husband won’t watch anything with Greek Mythology with me any longer.) I don’t have a husband, but, they are NOT described that way in the books. Okay, watch what you want. I will be reading if you need me.

• You have responded to your partner’s amorous advances with, “Just as soon as I finish this chapter.” Not amorous ones, but it sometimes happens with homework (and sleeping).

• You consider quietly reading in a coffee shop to be an excellent 1) idea for a date, 2) idea for a friend hangout, 3) idea for yourself any day of the week. Because why not.

• You collect hard copies of series in the format in which you got the first one. If you got the first one in hardback, the rest of them are acquired thusly as well (even if you know you’ve got no chance of reading it before it comes out in paperback) And it looks prettier. They’re all the same. Pretty, I’m telling you.

• You exchange books with your mom by mail and then you have long phone conversations trying to remember who’s got which book and which book you want back. (Actually, I don’t. Her literary tastes are not the same as mines. I won’t read Twilight. No, I won’t give arguments, I just won’t. OK. I don’t want to. And it actually is an argument to me)

• You make sure to only buy purses/bags that are big enough to store a paperback. You can’t go out for drinks without taking a book along too. They’re useless otherwise.
• When you were in fourth grade, you didn’t understand why your friends didn’t want to just come over and read quietly together. You missed all the fun. It’s even better than watching Netflix.
  
  
• You bring print books AND a stocked ereader on vacation. If you’re close to finishing your current book, you bring a back-up along, just in case you finish. It would be foolish not to. 
• Your pets have adjusted to your household, tabletop, and bedside piles of books and use them for their own climbing, sleeping, and/or attention-getting purposes. And they use them aaaall the time.
  
  
• When you have guests over, piles of books get covered with linens of some sort and become new furniture. (To me, they look better in the bookshelf, or the table, or the bed. And the desk, and the chair)
  
  
• When guests leave, you still use piles of books in various forms to perform furniture-related functions. Like rising the PC to watch Netflix. 
• You do not have a single room in your home lacking a book or fifteen of some kind. Kitchen reading. Bedroom reading. Office reading. Bathroom reading. Guest bathroom reading. Guest bedroom reading. Den reading. You’re covered in any and all situations. Only fifteen? Pathetic.

• Still celebrating the birthdays of the ladies of The Baby-Sitters Club all these years later. Because why wouldn’t you worship your idols on their special days? Woz that?

• Your brother lost some of your complete collection of Animorphs book, and, if you’re being honest, you’re probably never going to get over it. GET AWAY FROM HARRY POTTER. GET AWAY FROM THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Why? Because I found Tunnels on the sofa. Only /I/ can put my books there. They’re miiine.

• Darting your eyes from the math homework to your book and back. You can always do the homework at school.
  
  
• You have your reading playlist. No. It's not the same to the sleeping one. There are about 4 playlists. It depends on your mood which one you play. It depends on the book, too.
  
• You've tried to write a story. Over, and over. And you spend your time daydreaming of the times when you are famous and have money (to buy more books).
  
• You don't understand people who don't read. Like, how are they even real? GO AWAY.
  
• You have convinced your friends to read your books (they loved them, and you talk about them all the time)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Check the link here: http://bookriot.com/2015/05/06/shit-book-nerds/